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It is a place where flyers of all experience levels can meet to discuss and exchange up-to-date undistorted...

The team at FLYER knows how extraordinary that solo feeling is, and we’d like to help you celebrate with a special FLYER memento. If you sends us a photo of you with your solo aircraft, along with the date that you soloed, you can receive an email...

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Got your PPL recently? Congratulations, we'd like to help you celebrate by sending you THREE free issues of Flyer* All you need to do is to send us a copy of your licence (photocopy, fax, scan etc.) and we'll do...

Every day is a school day - some more so than others - but we never stop learning.

We would all like to know about and join in celebrating noteworthy milestones along the path of your aviation career - whether that be private or commercial. This...

For the benefit of those considering a PPL(A) and wanting to know time and cost, I’m sharing my experience based upon detailed records I kept. This is just my way through it, yours may differ, but I hope it gives you some insight and food for...

I know i've read it here somewhere....but naturally now I can't find it.

After airlaw, what do people recommend as the next exam? I've heard both operational procedures or human factors.......but would be grateful for advice.

For a while I've been meaning to put together a little compilation of "stuff that helped" while I was learning to fly. I got around to it in the end (almost a year after getting the PPL...) and the result is now here(PDF) .

It's less a...

The team at FLYER knows how extraordinary that solo feeling is, and we’d like to help you celebrate with a special FLYER memento. If you sends us a photo of you with your solo aircraft, along with the date that you soloed, you can receive an email...

Thought I'd start a new thread now that I've graduated from 'New' to 'Novice' :)

Lesson #2 today, and it was absolutely brilliant. Lots and lots of learning. Brace for a bit of a long blether:

The weather was officially CAVOK but the haze was...

Hi!

Maybe sounds like a stupid question but since passing my test 3 years ago I have always taxied into a parking space. Lately i've found myself having to taxi up to a space and push in. It's such a tight area and being afraid to damage other...

My first proper lesson . ...

Woke up to fog, rang aerodrome, they reported decent cloud base and some blue sky.

As I drove down the weather improved and we ended up with scattered above 3,000', blue skies, wind light, almost straight down the...

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to say hello as a new student beginning (hopefully!) my PPL journey.
I've been lurking for a year reading all the fantastic conversations and experiences of everyone.
I've been a flight simmer on and off for about 20...

Ok one of those stupid questions that you shouldn't really ask the internet.

But a straw poll....how many takes offs and landing did it take for it all to 'click' during your training? I seem to have everything apart from gauging the right about...

Can someone please give me advise. I am nearing the completion of my PPL and have just left my flight school due to abuse by the instructor. He would never answer my questions, make demeaning comments when asked a question such as (this requires...

I'm quickly approaching my 1 year anniversary since my last written exam.
Given that the current rumors place the end of lockdown to July, has there been any signal from the CAA to relax the two years rule to complete the private license from when...

The free app I've been using on my phone to keep a track of my flights along with my excel sheet went west so i thought shoot, I'll start using logbook.aero

Not only did i find an extra 10 mins of solo time which i'd added up wrong in my book...

Hi,

Son is due to take Air Law exam this week. How long is it taking for the CAA to confirm portal access at the minute?

What happens if it's not back in time for his exam?

Thanks

Barry

Hello Student Pilots,

I am a ground and RTF examiner and have just rewritten all my FRTOL material including audio files etc to improve the quality and make sure all the Learning Objectives (LO) are met.

I now need to try the material out on two...

completed my 45th hour today, going to sit a "mock" skills test next week and see how we get on

any tips for the skills test (apart from breathe) need to read up on the tolerances for altitude etc... the 2 hours under the hood were good...

I shared in my post "When's it too late..?" that I want to become a commercial pilot. It's a deliberate career change choice based on wanting to realise a boyhood wish. So I've decided it really is now or never.

I have booked in for my...

Hey all,

I’m off to EGBJ this weekend for a mock run prior to my XC, never been here before so I’m reading all the VFR guide info etc but curious if anyone has any tips about the airport I may find useful for the cross country.

Every day is always a school day for every pilot.

For every single one of us, but perhaps particularly those starting out, it’s handy to soak up as much knowledge as possible, as quickly as possible from wherever it’s available.

Paul Bertorelli...

Hello!

I've always wanted to learn to fly and fortunately I am in a position now to make a start and plough through it at a decent rate.

Unfortunately, now that I'm set on and able to learn to fly, seems everything is against me!

I had a trial...

Hi,

I'm going to take my air law exam on the 30th of this month and i am really apprehensive about what the exams questions will be like, i have been using various different apps on my phone to take trial exams but i am still unsure what the real...

Hi all,

New to the forum, so hello everyone and thanks for having me.

I have just returned to training after a long break due to Covid and it feels great to get back in the air.
I am training for my NPPL (m) as this is really the only path that is...

After working throughout the last year of pandemic, I've really got to force myself to take some time away from work. I've got plenty of leave to use up by the end of the year. So I figured I should do a week's intensive gliding course.

Living in...

How in the name of god does this work?

I have a revision question I can't figure out:

A/C is on track 075 degs
QNH = 1010
What is the lowest available flight level?

I came to the answer thus:

Transition layer = 1013-1010 * 30 = 90ft thick
So...

I have just started my flight training, I am using my local club with their Robin HR200 2 seater.

I am estimating roughly £10k-15k - finding this guy as a guide:

Are there any tips or ways to look at it? There is a lot of information and I just...

Afternoon,

Pending weather, I'll be doing my QXC tomorrow, been over the plan probably 100 times over the weekend.

the plan is Turweston, Shobdon then Sywell, I was thinking of asking for a transit via Brum instead of dipping underneath...

Hi all,

Missed out on getting my night rating in over the winter, what with this planet being on the naughty step.

Looking for sooner-than-next-winter options, I've found Carlisle Flight Training who, according to their website, are "one of...

Inspired by this .

It was an eye opener to me first time I went out in anything less than 10km visibility. Sadly, it seems that few instructors take their students up in or let students solo in visibility of less than 10km and therefore students...

Apologies if this has been covered before, so feel free to send me to an old thread if that's the case!

Keen to get myself flying but totally stuck between PPL and PPL(H). Moving budget and costs aside, I was hoping to get some feedback from those...

Hi everyone :) I'm really interested in learning to fly. I've had a trial lesson on a rotary, R22, and fixed wing, C152. My gut feeling is that I preferred the rotary. The vision was much better - but maybe I'm just too short - I could hardly see...

Hi,

So im still doing PPL and want to move on to aero rating afterwards but ive been tempted to go an do a 30 min experience flight before i get my PPL...

Question is, whilst i apprciate the time cannot be counted towards my PPL or aero rating,...

Hello everyone,

I've been lurking on here for some time following the good craic and thought I'd introduce myself.

I'm Chris, 45 and - hopefully when the school opens later in March - will be embarking on a lifetime ambition to get my PPL and...

Here it is again, the chance to shine for all pilots who learn new stuff - and that's all of us, right?!

The forum and resident forumites share in the celebration of any noteworthy milestones along the path of your aviation career - whether that...

Don’t know if anyone else is feeling it but I’m now two hours back into training after the lockdown.

Did a nav exercise today to brush up on nav and map reading but was super hazy so visibility wasn’t great which translated into some very anxious...

Hi,

Curious about the above, I attended a GASCO session this week was pretty good my first but really enjoyed it so much so I’m signed up for another next week.

Anywho, they provide a logbook endorsement was curious do people add these to their...

Hi all,

Firstly I’m not associated with javelin at all but I’m currently doing their online RT training which covers everything in comms to get you ready for the written comms exam and the RT exam, all done over a five week period 2.5 hours, one...

So i have 3 lessons booked next week, hoping the weather plays ball for at least one of them.

when i booked i was feeling confident, even though I haven't flown for 3 months, no that its next week a wave of nervousness is currently washing over me....

Seems to be every Sunday morning?

Really annoying as I have CPL exams tomorrow, and wanted to print off the confirmation slips to check what equipment I need to take!

Doubtless it'll be up later, but do they actually publish the maintenance times?

so had 2 firsts today

1st of all it my first flight (from scratch) with no instructor, spoke to him in the club house, signed out given a key and be back in 60 mins essentially (way more but you know)

so very slowly and very methodically went...

Firstly, apologies if this has been covered, I looked but couldn’t find this topic elsewhere, so please feel free to direct me.

Where a student had completed all assessments for a LAPL or PPL, has applied and is simply waiting for the CAA to issue...

I need some advice, please.

EDITED FOR CLARITY - my apologies for rushing to make plans for possible diversion.

My school have just telephoned to explain that they are having to temporarily put me with a different instructor.
They have said they...

hello i know i have 20/20 vision in my left eye but my right eye is a bit worse i am wondering if i can still pass my class 1 medical.

Hope you’re all enjoying the bank holiday.

Was up early this morning for a trip to Mona for some circuits, closed being a bank holiday, what about caernarfon apparently closed to all visitors as the S&R are playing with a new drone :(

So off...

Hi everyone,

It is difficult to get a real grasp of the good and bad schools, yet it is such a big decision given how much money I will need to spend!

I live in Birmingham and therefore am looking to the flight schools at Tatenhill or Coventry to...

Hi everyone, got some really helpful responses recently so gonna go ahead with a few more questions....

I am really struggling with my research, and would like to know if you have any advice for me or if there are any independent sources of...

Dear Friends,

I came here to ask your advice, hoping that you could shine a new light on the pickle that I’m in... my current situation:

- STEM BSc degree
- recently promoted to a well paying job
- 150h TT/ 100h PIC on SEP
- ATPL(A) theory...

Hi everyone,

I have done some Googling on the topic but am struggling to get concrete information.

In terms of ATPLs I am pretty sure that...
1. You have 18 months limit to complete all ATPL exams after your first sitting.
2. You then have 36...

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all keeping safe and well, and more importantly counting down the days until you can get back out there!

I thought I’d say hello and introduce myself. I’m Rob, based in St Albans, and am now a few hours in to my PPL...

Looking for advice please. Can a student who has under gone training at a UK DTO pre-31 Dec 20, able to transfer their training record to an EASA DTO/ATO and continue training for EASA PPL. In other words I am looking to see if anyone has read that...

Hi all, first post here

Next month, when lockdown eases I'm going to embark on learning to fly and have decided that the NPPL(M) route is probably for me, based on realistically how much I want to spend and the kind of flying I'm interested in.

I...